Grimes has filed a court docket petition over her three kids with ex-boyfriend Elon Musk.
The musician, whose actual title is Claire Boucher, filed the petition on Friday “to determine parental relationship,” in accordance with court docket information. Whereas the main points are nonetheless unclear as a result of filings being non-public, the petition successfully requests a court docket order that identifies a child’s legal parents and is often required when the mother and father of a kid are single.
Such petitions are sometimes filed alongside calls for for custody rights or baby assist, although it doesn’t seem that the “Oblivion” singer has made such requests as of Tuesday.
Grimes and Musk have three kids collectively over the course of their on-and-off relationship, which started in 2018 after they related on Twitter. Musk acquired the platform final 12 months for $44 billion, renaming it X and coming beneath warmth for loosening rules and enabling hate speech on the location. Grimes, 35, and Musk, 52, have by no means been married to one another.
The Tesla CEO is at present a father of 11. Musk had six kids together with his first spouse, Justine Wilson, earlier than welcoming son X Æ A-12 with Grimes in Might 2020. The 2 break up up in September 2021, solely to briefly reunite and have daughter Exa Darkish Sideræel, nicknamed Y, by way of surrogate.
Weeks earlier than Y’s arrival, former Neuralink govt Shivon Zilis gave start to Musk’s twins Strider and Azure. The twins’ start was not made public till the next 12 months. Musk reportedly ended his relationship with Grimes for a second time in the beginning of 2022.
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Grimes and Musk secretly had a 3rd baby, in accordance with a biography concerning the billionaire by journalist Walter Isaacson. The 2 are parents to a son named Techno Mechanicus, nicknamed Tau. It’s unclear when Tau was born.
In early September, Grimes appeared to share a distressed plea to Musk on social media, begging him to let her see her kids. Screenshots showed the singer tweeting at Isaacson after his story about Musk came out in Time magazine and featured pictures of the billionaire with Zilis and their twins, in addition to a photograph of him with Grimes’ first son.
“Inform Shivon to unblock me and inform Elon to let me see my son or plz reply to my lawyer,” the now-deleted tweet stated, in accordance with the screenshot. “I’ve by no means even been allowed to see a photograph of those kids till this second, regardless of the state of affairs completely ripping my household aside.”
Days later, the singer tweeted that she spoke with Zilis to deescalate the situation and that the 2 girls “respect one another loads and we’re excited to grow to be mates and have the children develop up collectively.”
“I really apologize for responding to Walter like that. As u can think about, that was a really intestine degree response to a factor that has been very arduous for me,” she continued. “Communication concerning the twins wasn’t dealt with tremendous properly previously, however I now completely perceive what occurred and completely forgive the state of affairs.”
The revelation of Grimes’ lawsuit comes on the heels of another legal battle filed Monday in opposition to Musk. In a defamation lawsuit, 22-year-old Ben Brody stated the billionaire falsely accused him of being a federal agent posing as a neo-Nazi. Brody, a Jewish man from California, stated that he and his household have been pressured to flee their house after receiving harassment and threats on account of Musk’s accusation.
